Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020

9:30 am

Photo of Imelda MunsterImelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Vice Chair. I want to touch on RTÉ. Ms Licken said the funding for RTÉ comes through her Department, but we know that RTÉ is funded through the television licence. RTÉ accounts for nearly 25% of the total expenditure. The funding comes through the Department and it is tasked with handing the funding over. I want to touch on the fact that RTÉ recently made a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners for €1.2 million, which arose from the misclassification of workers or, effectively, bogus self-employment. In June, in correspondence with the committee, Ms Licken had indicated that she could not engage on the subject as it was part of an ongoing process with the Revenue Commissioners. Now that the settlement has been made, what actions have the Department taken in response? Has it done anything in response to that settlement being made?

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